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DeHavilland Otter down in AK - Ted Stevens?
Topic Started: Aug 10 2010, 06:24 AM (676 Views)
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http://newsminer.com/view/full_story/9057693/article-Plane-with-8-aboard-crashes-in-southwest-Alaska?instance=home_news_window_left_top_1

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Plane with 8 aboard crashes in southwest Alaska; possible fatalities
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Updated 2:45 a.m. 8/10/10

JUNEAU, Alaska - Authorities said Tuesday that a plane believed to be carrying eight people has crashed in southwest Alaska.

Alaska National Guard spokesman Maj. Guy Hayes said the Guard was called to the area about 20 miles north of Dillingham at about 7 p.m. Monday after a passing aircraft saw the wreckage.

Hayes says there are possible fatalities. State and federal officials say severe weather has hampered the rescue operation.

Hayes says about five good Samaritans were on scene early Tuesday helping the crash victims. He says he was told by Alaska State Troopers that there were "eight or nine" people on board, though a spokeswoman for the troopers, Megan Peters, refused to comment.

She says all the agency can say, for sure, is that a plane went down and crews were "aggressively" trying to reach the crash site but having difficulty doing so.

"I can't go beyond, 'We're responding to a plane crash,'" she said.

The aircraft is a 1957 DeHavilland DHC-3 Otter registered to Anchorage-based communications company GCI, the Federal Aviation Administration told the Anchorage Daily News. A woman at the Regional Operations Center told The Associated Press all further information was pending notification of next of kin.

Dillingham is located in northern Bristol Bay, about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage.

According to the Anchorage Daily News, former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens was reportedly traveling to a GCI-owned lodge in the area and friends are concerned he may have been on the downed plane.
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Hayes says there are possible fatalities.


I would guess they are waiting to notify relatives before making any public announcements.

Since neither Stevens nor his office has called by now to report he wasn't on the plane, one has to assume the worst.
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http://www.airliners.net/photo/Wood-River-Lodge/De-Havilland-Canada/0835289/L/

Plane was converted to a turbine:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Wood-River-Lodge/De-Havilland-Canada/0799124/L/

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Wood-River-Lodge/De-Havilland-Canada/0834253/L/

http://www.texasturbines.com/ttotter/TTotter.htm
Edited by LTC8K6, Aug 10 2010, 08:28 AM.
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I think, given that nothing has come from Steven's family to the contrary that they have probably suffered a tragedy. One has to only hope that if lives were lost that it was swift. RIP
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It was reported in some alaska news reports that they believe there ware some survivors and they are being taken care of by some local good samaritans until help can arrive. There also maybe some dead.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_alaska_plane_crash_stevens
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http://www.adn.com/2010/08/09/1402798/plane-with-8-on-board-crashes.html

About five good Samaritans were already on scene helping the victims of the plane crash, Hayes said.

"They're not out there alone right now. There's people that are providing support," Hayes said. "From what I'm told, there are survivors on this aircraft. I don't know how many could be fatalities at this point."

Read more: http://www.adn.com/2010/08/09/1402798/plane-with-8-on-board-crashes.html#ixzz0wDDrt8gv


http://www.mediaite.com/online/former-senator-ted-stevens-feared-dead-after-small-plane-crahses-in-alaska/
Edited by chatham, Aug 10 2010, 09:12 AM.
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from FR:

MSNBC is reporting that Ted Stevens and former Navy Secy. and former NASA Chief Sean O’Keefe were on board
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http://twitter.com/kgoradio

ABC News is confirming that former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was aboard plane that crashed and he is dead.
2 minutes ago via web
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kgoradio‎: ABC News is now saying they 'cannot confirm' Ted Stevens is dead. We will keep you updated.
Twitter - seconds ago
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5 people dead.
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CNN confirming that Sean O'Keefe was on board the plane that went down.
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http://www.wral.com/news/story/8110947/
Official: Sen. Stevens believed aboard crashed airplane
Posted: 3:17 a.m. today
Updated: 31 minutes ago

JUNEAU, Alaska — A plane believed to be carrying eight people, including former Sen. Ted Stevens, crashed in southwest Alaska and rescue crews were trying to reach the wreckage early Tuesday, authorities said.

Alaska National Guard spokesman Maj. Guy Hayes said there were possible fatalities. Five good Samaritans were on scene early Tuesday helping the crash victims, he said. It was unclear how they reached the site.

A U.S. government official told The Associated Press that Alaska authorities have been told the former longtime Republican senator is among several passengers on the plane. The official, who spoke on grounds of anonymity, says Stevens’ condition is unknown.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Republican Senator Ted Stevens was among those killed when a small plane crashed in Alaska on Monday night, local television station KTUU said on its website on Tuesday, quoting a longtime family friend.
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Cold night crept by after crash killed Stevens

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